ATLAS Asia Coordinators
Chin Ee Ong – Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM), China
Stephanie Xueke Yang – Beijing Normal University, China
Contact form
If you would like to get in touch with one of the ATLAS Regional Coordinators, please fill in the form HERE
Report 2026
Activities of last year
We have organized The ATLAS Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific 2026 ‘In-Between’ Conference, Ritusumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, 9-10 March. This conference is themed ‘Tourism and Mobilities’ and drew in around 100 participants from around the world.
We have given out the following awards:
• Three early career/postgraduate best paper awards: Elahe Nassr, Jingzhi Huang and Rui Liu.
• One overall best paper award: Phoenix Lam.
• Lifetime Achievement Awards: Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Maribeth Erb (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Carolin Funck (Hiroshima University, Japan), Shinji Yamashita (Tokyo University, Japan)
There was also specially themed two fieldtrips around Japan: Uji City and Omihachiman City.
Plans for the future
We plan to have another ATLAS Critical Tourism-Asia-Pacific Conference in Macao University of Tourism, Macao SAR, China in November 2027.